Tribe.net. Local Connections Canela, too hot for you http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#2375f1e2-73ae-463f-90ac-50be568a1e4c 2009-10-03T09:06:44Z 2009-10-03T09:06:44Z

Ok, checked it out. I think, rather than reading the meoirs of a childhood that turns into a life of a teenager who thinks of Michael Jackson as an "idol of freedom" I would like to read think this: http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Resistance-Muslim-Women-Sexuality/dp/1580051812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254560362&sr=8-1 Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (Paperback) by Sarah Husain (Editor) "most certainly your body is for us to mark our territory and to conduct our wars..." (more) Editorial Reviews From Booklist Challenging homogenous stereotypes of Muslim women as the "Islamic Other," this eloquent collection of fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, letters, and artwork celebrates diversity across race, nation, sexuality, and gender. Most contributors live in the U.S., and the focus is on post-9/11 America, connecting multiple immigrant histories and memories of "home" with the personal and political in contemporary daily life. A few entries are dense with academic jargon about "hegemonic" definitions and "methodologies," but most are much better than that, including moving pieces about the veil, the body, and sexuality. One woman encounters hostility when she reads her Quran on the subway. Many have been the targets of hate crimes in the name of security and democracy. A short story addresses the controversial subject of suicide bombing as a form of resistance by the powerless. Three friends speak via e-mail from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Cairo. Sure to spark discussion in college classrooms and among feminist and peace activist groups. Hazel Rochman Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description Voices of Resistance is a diverse collection of personal narratives and prose by Muslim women whose experiences and observations are particularly poignant in today's politically and religiously charged environment. The contributors in this anthology hail from Yemen, Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Canada, and the United States. Sarah Husain conceptualized this collection as a means of redefining the stereotypical depictions of Muslim women that inundate current western discourse on the Islamic "other." She seeks to dispel the image of the veil as the age-old symbol of Muslim women's repression and move beyond sterile representations and narrow debates about the contemporary realities of Muslim women. These women engage in discourses concerning their bodies and their communities. A woman mourns the death of a cousin killed in a suicide bombing; a transsexual remembers with fondness the donning of the veil he no longer wears as a Muslim man; a woman confronts sexism and hypocrisy on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia; and the experience of being judged on the basis of skin color and political and religious affiliation that is far more blatant and ubiquitous since the September 11 terrorist attacks provide some of the compelling stories. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product Details Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Seal Press; illustrated edition edition (May 23, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1580051812

Canela, too hot for you 2009-10-03T09:06:44Z Canela, too hot for you http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#dbc768b6-6f9d-411b-8de0-e9014e40a1b8 2009-10-03T02:32:17Z 2009-10-03T02:32:17Z

"Persepolis"? What is that?

Canela, too hot for you 2009-10-03T02:32:17Z JM http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#e1ca8eed-a1f3-4056-b588-3c25ee31a094 2009-10-02T22:04:46Z 2009-10-02T22:04:46Z

Reading Lolita in Tehran is a little bit like living in Turkey today. Creeping Islam which plays into the American imagination like wildfire... and is (and sort of isn't) true to life. Now you've got to get yourself a copy of Persopolis.

JM 2009-10-02T22:04:46Z Canela, too hot for you http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#193293d2-8ba2-450b-a943-d25a856c2292 2009-07-07T16:27:59Z 2009-07-07T16:27:59Z

Writers at risk talk about their lives. Including Shahriar Mandanipour. From Harvard news: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/05.07/99-worlds.html

Canela, too hot for you 2009-07-07T16:27:59Z Akasha http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#d055e031-1028-4861-ae8b-e7dc707bad3a 2009-07-07T16:10:50Z 2009-07-07T16:10:50Z

Well I certainly love reading poetry by Rumi and Hafiz. As to educated and cultured, I'll take 'em from anywhere on the planet as long as we're all getting along. . .

Akasha 2009-07-07T16:10:50Z Canela, too hot for you http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#157aa09c-e683-4330-bbaf-ac53205bd48b 2009-07-07T05:06:16Z 2009-07-07T05:06:16Z

They are both available from amazon.com, enjoy! Shakti Gawain? My God, I read that ages ago. I also read at least four books on Mandanipour's list. He jokes in his book about Americans asking him:"Have you heard about internet, in Iran?" Why do I so often get the feeling that on average, the Iranians are way better educated and cultured than the likes of us? Is it just that I keep running into them or reading the the writing of the fittest among them who resisted that regime? Spookey. I get the same feeling about many of the Arabs I meet. Who are not always educated but their minds often seem, by nature, to be much wider awake than ours.

Canela, too hot for you 2009-07-07T05:06:16Z Akasha http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#9f73f11b-145f-4251-b0e6-fce63edec557 2009-07-06T22:35:43Z 2009-07-06T22:35:43Z

This post is interesting to me as I have worked as a street bookseller off and on in the summer months for the past eight years or so and I love when a book or novel references other books. Some of the books I have sold: The Koran Kenneth Rexroth selected poems John Fowles' The Magus Picasso: The Communist Years William Burroughs' Naked Lunch Allen Ginsberg Collected Writings Starhawk The Spiral Dance Shakti Gawain Creative Visualization Principia Discordia I'll take a look for "Censoring an Iranian love story" and check it out, I also love the title Reading Lolita in Teheran and hope to find a copy!

Akasha 2009-07-06T22:35:43Z Canela, too hot for you http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#d8eef67b-75af-463f-9d5b-cd84a48a5a2b 2009-07-06T13:02:35Z 2009-07-06T13:02:35Z

Mandanipour's list of books sold on the street by the old poet before he dies: page 103: Planck's book on quantum physics Khayyam's Rubayyat Stephen Hawkings' A brief history of time Bees and Refuting Marx's theories Saddam Hussein's biography 1001 nights Modern Iranian poetry Moamar Qaddafi's The GReen Book Popper's Open society and it's enemies Sternberg's The psychology of love Eichmann: His life and crimes The 3 musketeers 7 effective ways to quit opium Borge's Labyrinths The Islamic guide to sex Zen Simone de Beauvoir's The second sex Rumi's Ghazals Existentialism Palestine 7 ways to summon ghosts 101 years of solitude Baudelaire's Flowers of evil

Canela, too hot for you 2009-07-06T13:02:35Z Canela, too hot for you http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#f1909ed8-6126-4805-9c93-860c71377dd4 2009-06-29T08:07:33Z 2009-06-29T08:07:33Z

"Censoring an Iranian love story" is a brilliant book. I am reading it now, I fell for the author's personality after the first paragraph, and it is very very deep too, opening up gaping, dizzying abysses to gaze into if you are not afraid to think. Highly recommended to anyone interested in Oriental culture, politics, a writer's life, romance, Persian literature and symbolism... And to those who wish to know what is behind the shooting of Neda, the young female university student who died on a street in Teheran in recent protests.

Canela, too hot for you 2009-06-29T08:07:33Z Canela, too hot for you http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/thread/d5551d31-26e1-4637-9103-8b8b02716539#59621708-616d-445c-b744-bec21ace4535 2009-06-11T12:05:04Z 2009-06-11T12:05:04Z

I just got this book in the mail from amazon and have only browsed through it a little and read bits here and there. But I already love it! This book is going to be great fun, the author is my kind of guy. ; ) I have read "Reading Lolita in Teheran" before by Azar Nafisi and was impressed by the intelligence and candour of the female author and her unbreakable spirit. A popular, well loved, dedicated Persian professor of English literature who resigned from her position at Teheran university after she almost got "busted" by the moral police for not wearing a veil, and the Dean called her in and tried to talk her into wearing one after the Ayatollah took over the goverment. Instead she resigned and asked the female students to visit her at her house where they read all the now forbidden books in secret together, and she draws the most amazing connections to women's life in modern Iran from Nabokov, Scott Fitzgerald and so on. I am still in the middle of "Things I have been silent about", her other great book, that one is too unsettling for me to read long stretches at a time. "Censoring an Iranian love story" is by Shahriar Mandanipour, a male Iranian writer who got tired of writing gloomy, bitter stories. I don't know enough about it yet, but I assume, he had to write those, as every movie I saw that made it out of Iran under this government is in fact rather gloomy, showing stern looking, long suffering women with strict morals and a tragic aura, dressed in a black abaya, telling tales of endurance, unshakeable morals and such. Instead Mandanipour now tried to get away with writing a light hearted love story. He must have smuggled the manuscript into the West, as the book has been printed in full, with the censored bits crossed out but still readable which is a delightful fascinating experience to read. I was full of mirth when I saw how skillfully the crossed out sentences had been chosen, without altering the flow of the story but still completely altering the meaning of what was expressed. Read: deleting everything that is controversial, political, sexual, critical, comparing the Iran to Western standards... A great experience for readers who love wit, candour and irreverent critical thinking.

Canela, too hot for you 2009-06-11T12:05:04Z